Frank Carlson Library

My name is Amelia Gray. I am the Graveyard Queen, a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. My father passed down four rules to keep me safe and I've broken every last one. A door has opened and evil wants me back. In order to protect myself, I've vowed to return to those rules. But the ghost of a murdered cop needs my help to find his killer. The clues lead me to the dark side of Charleston where witchcraft, root doctors and black magic still flourish...

An American family moves to England, to the infamous Canterville Chase, the ancestral home that₂s been haunted for 300 years by the ghost, of Sir Simon de Canterville. When Sir Simon and the family₂s teenage daughter Virginia start plotting together to get her family back to New York, she discovers that Sir Simon has been cursed to be bound to the estate. After she uncovers the beautiful and tragic love story of Sir Simon₂s beloved wife, Virginia...

In a suburban home in New York, a man invents a phone that connects the living to the dead. But when he pushes its prongs deep into a grave, he unleashes a horror that no amount of poetry could ever convey.

When a friend asks Percy to do him a favour, he could never have envisaged the consequences. An unusual romantic ghost story set in the late 1800's.

We live in a rational age in which science and modern technology have removed doubt and ignorance. We no longer fear the dark, we no longer need to use superstitious symbols to protect our houses and families. We know what is happening in the world and are in contact with friends and family who might live miles away. Ours is a rational world… or is it? These short ghost stories are not set in remote Scottish castles or haunted Victorian houses....

The idea for this story actually happened on Christmas Eve in 1968. Three of my girlfriends and I were riding around in my 1954 Ford, I called her Beulah, and as we made our fifth trip around the Dairy Delite, we began talking about the old house in Matthews. Linda D. shouted from the backseat above the Turtles singing "It Ain't Me Babe" on KTSA AM Radio. I couldn't afford the new FM radios yet, but no matter, it sounded good playing from the twenty...

"Spectral Chronicles: 12 Ghost Stories" beckons you into the shadowy realm between the living and the departed, where whispers of the supernatural come alive with each turn of the page. This haunting anthology invites readers to explore the ethereal, the eerie, and the enigmatic as they embark on a spine-tingling journey through a dozen chilling tales.In "Spectral Chronicles," the line between the tangible and the spectral blurs as we encounter spirits...

Three girls taken from their neighborhoods for no reason. Snatched up and carried to a faraway place. What happens to them, you might ask? Well, the things of nightmares of course. Unspeakable things. This story will take you to depths of darkness that you never thought possible. Old rickety stairs, Alice in Wonderland type doors in the middle of nowhere. Let me taken you on an adventure that begins with an innocent girl and the terrifying world that...

When there was a strange unknown girl that entered the school on her first day, everybody thought she was a new student. But their thoughts to be wrong. She was there to only give out tickets to the amusement park for the students that she specifically chose and picked. When the students arrived. On the next following day, they weren't expecting the outcome of the amusement park. Fun becomes their living hell!

The Rider on the White Horse is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness in its setting of marsh and sea, it glorifies love, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son.